Occupy and Mediation: Two Movements That Offer One Another Massive ...

James Melamed- Without seeking or wanting to take a political position on whether the Occupy Movement has positively moved critical national discussions forward, or whether it is just a bunch of young folks in need of showers and jobs, one thing is perhaps clear: mediation is emerging as the preferred Occupy dispute resolution process of choice. How could it be otherwise?

To begin with, any person who has every facilitated a group must be impressed by Occupy general assemblies and both their ability to “self-amplify” with their "human mic" to make sure that everyone can hear, and also by their consensual “fingering” of their level of support for a proposition. This is truly a level of self-facilitation rarely evidenced. In fact, I am not sure that I have seen a better large group general consensus identifying process...

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